Soccer Quotes
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Learning from your heroes increases your information retention. And these soccer players in Africa are the heroes in their community.
Ethan Zohn -
It's funny, you'll probably find me more often watching soccer than a football game, because I get enough football in my daily schedule.
Eric Reid
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To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life.
Eunhyuk -
I think it's insane, absolutely insane for a person to have one of the highest and most important jobs in the entire world to be saying that he has to be at his children's soccer practice.
Charles Payne -
The game of soccer has been able to give me what I wanted out of life. I just remember being a total Tomboy and athlete as a girl, but never having a lack of opportunity.
Tiffeny Milbrett -
It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.
Michel Platini -
The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art.
Kasey Keller -
That goal surprised most people, least of all myself
Garth Crooks
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It is one of my biggest regrets that Niall Quinn was not here during my time... I felt he was an intelligent player. It would have been a good combination with Thierry Henry. What I like with Quinn is if you look at the player who played next to him, he always scored 40 goals because he had a hand for his head and he just put the ball where you were. He was a team player. A top-class player makes other players look good and he had that player.
Arsene Wenger -
The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?
Daniel Finkelstein -
I grew up playing soccer and always loved playing it.
Wes Welker -
It's a strange atmosphere always over there, it is darker and less glamorous, and you don't feel as high. It is a different kind of test - can you raise your level in a less exciting environment and perhaps still a very difficult one?
Arsene Wenger -
I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs.
Mitch Hedberg -
I kind of look at this as a bookmark in my life, and once it’s over, I’m excited for what I can accomplish as both a soccer player and a runner.
Carrie Tollefson
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My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.
Sherman Alexie -
I played soccer because my friends did. Besides we got sodas afterwards.
Mia Hamm -
Work on your strong points because they are what made you.
Arsene Wenger -
For the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on would have about as much chance of power as the chief executive of BP has in taking over from Oprah Winfrey.
Terry Eagleton -
Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'
Arsene Wenger -
All three of us boys, we grew up playing soccer. It was all of our first love. One of my coaches actually wanted me to try out for the U.S. national team, but I decided to quit to pursue football.
Eric Reid
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I do play soccer, but it's exhausting in a way.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement -
People say I'm hard, I'm Mr Angry. I'm this, I'm that. I just want to win matches. There's no point going out there and being Mr Nice Guy. We get 55,000 at Old Trafford and I don't think they want fellas going out there and thinking: Ah, if we lose, so what?
Roy Keane -
I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.
Will Ferrell -
When I see Lionel Messi play soccer, he lets the game come to him. He lets the game unveil itself to him, then like a lion he eats the whole thing.
Ethan Hawke